@REEMOVE_ed: "Glorious weather while shopping in Tunbridge Wells. Dashed back home in the
late afternoon only to have clouds roll in. Cleared around 7pm so tried out
my 1nm (10A) h-alpha filter.
1st time I've seen these lovely firery filaments jutting off the limbs:
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Very little processing (trimmed dark reds to reduce ghosting, sharpened a
little and cropped).
Regards,
Ed."
    @martinfrey: "<quote>
Great stuff - PST is weak at photography - can't get focus with my
ancient digital camera. Can you see the turmoil round the sunspot
groups with your set up?
New mega spot developing well - seemed on the margin of naked eye this
am in very rushed attempt. will try again when opportunity allows
Martin Frey
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    @robert: "news:<email_address>
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Was going to ask that very same question myself, followed by can i drive
down and have a look ;-)
Been dying to see the "real" sun in HAlpha rather than pictures!
Rob"
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Hi Rob,
I'd been so used to seeing a boring plain red disk with my 10� h-alpha
filter I was on the verge of junking it.  I rearranged a few bits of my
optical train and suddenly had in-focus sunspots. I was looking at these
spots for over 5 minutes before I thought "hmm - got some reflections on
that lower limb".  I looked again, grinned a bit, uttered an exclamation
mark and looked again.  Yep - definitely prominences!
First time I'd ever seen them for real.  They're quite faint and annamyers@example.org.  Even the "curtain of fire" (862.jpg) wasn't as brash to the eye as
it turned out in the camera.  It was very delicate to look at and, at first
glance, looked like smoke rising.
I've removed the internal IR rejection filter from my F717 so it's quite
sensitive in the red region now - definately helped to let those prominences
shine through.
My filter wont give those wonderful h-alpha images you see in the mags (so
I've been told) as its bandpass is too wide (10� vs 0.7�; it lets non
h-alpha light through as well).  Even so, I'm suddenly happy with it.
Regards,
Ed."
    @martinfrey: "<quote>
I can manage holding the camera to the eyecup and getting something
fair - but nowhere near what I can see visually. The PST won't come to
focus for prime focus or eyepiece projection - not enough travel.
I'll give this a go - I need a negative Barlow - or something similar
- concave anyway.
Martin Frey
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    @martinfrey: "<quote>
Rob - if you can't make it to T Wells, you are welcome in Appledore -
email me off group (snip the snip for email). That's as long as you
don't bring your pugnacious killer scope with you. I'm a devout
coward.
Martin Frey
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